Pray For Our American Heroes and Our Nation

Oh LORD, Our God, How Excellent is Your Name Over All the Earth! Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent, You Alone Are Worthy to be Praised and Worshiped. You Alone Are Holy, You Alone Are LORD, You Alone Are The One True God You know Every One of Our American Heroes By Name. You Know Their Needs and The Desires of Their Hearts.

Precious Jesus, Our Rock and Our Redeemer, Be A Shield For Our American Heroes. Be Their Strength and Their Song, Their Fortress and Their High Tower. Let NO Weapon Formed Against them Prosper.

Beloved Holy Spirit, Our Comforter and Friend, Bring The Message of Salvation to All of Our American Heroes on Silken Wings. Whisper Deliverance in their Ears, And Clothe Them in Your Armor. Bestow upon Them All Of Your Precious Gifts, That They May be Returned to us Unharmed, With The Banner of The LORD held aloft in their Hearts, And Victory in Their Right Hand.

In Jesus Name. AMEN

For Our Beloved Troops

Our Father, Who Art In Heaven, Blessed and Hallowed Be Your Most Holy Name! You Are My Refuge and my Strength, My very Present Help In Times Of trouble. Your Are The One Who trains My Hands For War, and Comforts My Heart in times of Stress. You Are My Rock and My Redeemer, My Strength and My Song, My Fortress and My High Tower, My Sword and My Shield. I Will Not Fear The Enemy, For If You Be With me, Who Can Stand Against me? For It Is Not By Might, Not By Power, and Not even by superior firepower and technology that we shall overcome, but By Your Holy Spirit, Precious LORD, My God! You Alone are My Strength and Song. Some trust in Chariots, Some in Horses, but I depend upon You, and You Alone. Keep Me in Your Tender Care, Dear Father, Keep Me In That Secret Place Under Your Wing. Cover me With Your Feathers, Make Me invisible to the enemy. Keep me silent when I need to be silent, Strong when I need to be strong, Yielding when I need to be Yielding. Give me the full Support and Prayers of my People and my Government, so I will not feel abandoned or alone. Give me Wisdom and Power in the face of evil, and Compassion and Kindness when it is called for Lead me not into temptation, and guard my heart and mind from depression, anxiety, loneliness, frustration, worry, false religion, and evil thoughts, that I may be a righteous warrior for You and My People. This I Pray in the Name Of Jesus.

True confession: When I found out that astronaut Rex Walheim would be taking a copy of Our Daily Bread with him into space for the last mission of the shuttle Atlantis, I looked ahead to find out which devotionals I had written that he would be reading. The idea of having my words read in outer space seemed, well, pretty amazing for this small-town kid.

No sooner had I satisfied my curiosity, however, than I had another thought. Why do I consider this such a big deal? My words are heard in heavenly places whenever I pray. What has happened to me that I take for granted the concept that the God who created the universe listens to my words? In Christ, I can approach God with freedom and confidence (Eph. 3:12). Why be more awestruck at having a human read what I have written than having Almighty God hear what I pray?

If that idea isnt enough to rouse me from complacency, theres this: The Lord is using the church to make known His wisdom to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places (v.10). Imagine. God not only hears our prayers, but He uses us earthlings to teach heavenly beings the plan of redemption He has accomplished through Christ. Now thats a big deal!

God is waiting in the silenceOh, to know that He is near!Earth recedes and heaven opens,God is waiting, God is here. O. Smith

In the coldest and darkest days of the American Revolution, General George Washington raised his prayers for the survival of his beleaguered Army and of the new Nation. The Lord answered those prayers, upheld his Army through a punishing nadir to everlasting glory and bestowed His manifold benefits upon the new Nation.

In like manner, let our prayers now rise lie a fountain for our Heroes in the American Armed Forces who seek to secure the benefits of Freedom on behalf of a people hungry for them. Father, look on our prayers for them with favor, guide their steps in righteousness and keep them in the shelter of Your Healing Wings. Bless and uphold them in the performance of their Mission. Through Jesus Christ, Your Son, with the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever, Amen.

Heavenly Father, Lord of the Nations, unto Your Divine Mercy we commend the souls of these brave men and women who have fallen in the service of our Beloved Nation and in defense of the Freedoms we hold dear. We pray that You gather them in Your loving embrace, that You cause Your countenance to shine upon them, and that You vouchsafe their souls to dwell eternally in Your Divine Presence. Through Jesus Christ Your Son, with the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever, Amen.

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

Blessings To All Who Visit Here

God Bless America!

ML/LTOS(El Kabong)

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